My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
THOMAS PYNCHONEverybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Shall I project a world?
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